Postgres error “invalid value for parameter ”TimeZone“: ”UTC“”

Question

Jupitor$ bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate
APP_development already exists
rake aborted!
PG::Error: ERROR:  invalid value for parameter \"TimeZone\": \"UTC\"
: SET ti         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem using the Postgres.app from Heroku. Rebooting my Mac solved it.

Answer 2

What actually happened is that you upgraded the postgresql server and cleaned-up your old folders but you haven't restarted your postgresql server. The server searched for the timezones files in the deleted dir

Answer 3

brew services restart postgresql did not fix for me. I'm sure rebooting would've worked, but I wanted to figure out the cause of the issue.

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I believe the issue was caused for me because of two conflicting versions of postgresql.

I already had postgresql running with brew services, and then installed postgresql@11 which left postgresql running in brew services even after I uninstalled postgresql.

I fixed this by stopping the postgresql brew service, even though it wasn't listed in brew services list.

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Steps to reproduce:

$ brew install postgresql
$ brew services start postgresql

$ brew install postgresql@11
$ brew uninstall postgresql

$ brew services start postgresql@11

How to fix:

$ brew services stop postgresql

Opened an issue on Homebrew requesting that a formula's service should automatically be stopped upon uninstall.